Thursday, February 08, 2007

KICKBACKS OR PAY TO PLAY?

The late actor Claude Raines said it all “I am shocked, shocked” We have the strange situation of the following four companies, none based anywhere near Dearborn County donating significant amounts of money in an attempt to defeat a candidate for county commissioner, Ralph Thompson. They are, surprise, surprise:

All of them are gorging at the Dearborn County public trough, all contracted by our county administration.The question is why did they donate against Thompson? Better yet why did they donate at all? Normally one would think that engineering companies and financial advisors such as these four mentioned above would be happy to have a commissioner who is an engineer and who holds a degree in Business administration. They could talk the same technical language, and have productive meetings of this public-private accord. But no they didn’t want such an individual. What is it that made them go against a peer?

Was it the principals of these companies or their handlers, such as the central committee of the Dearborn County RINO party, or the potent, wealthy, well-educated DCEDI membership that feared Thompson might punch holes in their dreams of more riches?

I think that, though these four companies are within their legal rights and ethical rights to donate where they wish, this smells like a bad processing day at the St. Leon Sewer works. To avoid perceptions of impropriety of the County commissioners, and/or on the part of county officials, the commissioners should request that these 4 companies withdraw from doing business for Dearborn County. They have lost the trust and respect of any number of Dearborn Countians.

The cozy cronyism of the local RINO party machine must be crushed.

The DCEDI, and its handmaidens, the county commissioners, should have had an investigation into the backgrounds of the principals of these companies before engaging them. After all they are advising on huge sums of money, taxpayers’ money. What do we know about these guys other than what they have told us?One seemed to have spent an inordinate amount of verbiage about his regard for a town in Italy on the Adriatic Sea, Vieste, whence his family came. Who cares about that? After all, if these people put money into a campaign against a qualified candidate in favour of a candidate who is a developer and technically less qualified than his opponent, who knows where else they have put money or will put money or its equivalent?

I wish these "growth" types would just drop the pretense that they even care about the 99% of the citizens who don't want to be the "public piggy bank" for the elite of this county!!!

They need to come clean and just admit that the average citizen is only a resource to be mined barren, sterile and unproductive by those who worship and venerate the “all mighty dollar!!!”

Since we do not share their love of the 30 plus pieces of silver that might be gained on the backs of our neighbors, they think little of us.

We are not the “go-getters” they view themselves as!!!

How many of “us” would even want to be associated with these types, that feel right belonging to a federation of folks (read DCEDI) who view the less politically connected types as hostages to their, “politically connected,” movers and shakers’, fortunes!

The smug, self-importance and arrogance displayed by these "King Makers' " is beyond pathetic and laughable.

Who was the parasitic and bloodsucking Republican attorney who was purportedly bullying and threatening county officials and board members last election and warned them, in no uncertain terms, they dare not vote for Republican Thompson over Democrat Linkmeyer?

If this alleged occurrence really took place, Thompson should send this little conceited and pompous twit packing!!!

Tough guys with law degrees!!! They always leave me laughing!!!

These dweebs need to get out more…maybe they would pick up on the fact that others are not so awed and overwhelmed by their mere presence!!!

Maybe I live an insular life, but, I have yet to meet anyone who resided in Dearborn County their entire life, but longed to move away because it just was not enough alike Hamilton County, Ohio!

I have yet to meet anyone who moved to Dearborn County, who fled places like Hamilton County, because Hamilton County, just was not growing fast enough and they hoped to see more rapid growth in Dearborn County!

Yep. We fled Butler County because we could see the political machines at work over there buying up our farmland and turning it into "4 homes per acre" subdivisions. Bravo to everyone in Dearborn County who has the courage to stand up and draw a line in their fields, so to speak! We love living here, we love the good people we've met here, and we proudly stand beside you to fight for our country way of life!

Since we do not share their love of the 30 plus pieces of silver that might be gained on the backs of our neighbors, they think little of us.

What’s worse?

Some folks have to spend over $30,000.00 of their own “silver” before they even begin to sweat out connection fees and monthly sewer dues, just so politically savvy realtors and developers can increase their bottom line profits on their over crowded subdivisions!

And these bought and paid for politicians and hacks thought we were not going to put up a fight?

These imbeciles are going to set back development for many years to come, simply because they could not measure and govern their own insatiable greed!

Hopefully, these folks are well stocked with Valium and Scotch for the next series of elections and coming board changes!

The next time you are at Wal Mart, Krogers, etc., gaze into the faces of those people you are so enthusiastically keen to "tax," thousands upon thousands of dollars, only for the subsidy and advantage of a few of your "friends."

Then convince yourself that you are a fiscal conservative...as long as its not your friends and associates' money you are spending!!!!

Every sewer plant “low balled” to the taxpayer is going to cost twice as much in the end.

Further, at least with the current county leadership, most of these sewer facilities will be soon permitted to hit “over-capacity” to make way for more “politically connected” realtors and developers subdivisions.

Then we will always be one crisis away from the next crisis, with ever increasing cries for more sewer growth, which in turn will be permitted to reach levels of over-capacity.

Raise your hands if you heard the same anecdotal story about the wrecker driver, hip deep in old retirees' raw sewage, while winching a car out of a some old retirees' ditch. Major old retirees' septic tank failure!!!

Can anyone tell me why we're not allowed to have aerobic septic systems out here? They don't use leach fields, and they're more efficient and environmentally friendly. Why aren't they an acceptible alternative to the "failing" septic systems currently in use? We used one at our previous home in Butler County. We had to pay a $50 charge every year to the county health board which covered the yearly inspection. Otherwise, we had no problems with it at all. When we moved here, we were told by our realtor that aerobic systems weren't approved out here.

Aerobic septic systems do nothing…zilch…naught, to support and relieve the financial burdens of those pimp realtors and developers that demand the citizen/taxpayers to shoulder all the pecuniary burden of the “sewer-welfare for the rich and politically connected”programs now promulgated by their “bitches” in government!